Jim Hall FREng FRS is Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS). His research focuses on risk analysis and decision-making under uncertainty, particularly in relation to climate change, infrastructure, water resources, and extreme events.

He is a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology and the Council of Expert Advisors for NISTA. He previously served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of IIASA.

Prof Hall has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and four books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society and was a contributing author to the IPCC’s Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report.